The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-03
ORIGINAL THINGS.
Where Some Practical Articles Were
First introduced to the World.

London was one abutting east of
Northumberland House, Strand.
The first advertisements known i'm
England were in the shape of small
bills affixed to the door Of st.
Paul's Church.
The first play bill issued from
Drury-lane Theatre was on April
3, j63, the piece represented being
The Humorous Lieutenant"
The first royal letter was written
by Henry V to the Bishop of Dur
ham, February 10, 141S.
The first book containing musi
cal characters was issued i'm 1495
from the press of the celebrated
"Wynken de Worde."
The first record of a Judges sal
ary gives f13S lbs 4d as the stipend
of Thomas Littleton, Judge of the
Kings Bench, 1466
The model of the first English
steam vessel was laid before the
Board of Admiralty in 1889.
The first Italian lady who sang
i'm public in England was francesca
Margherita de l'Epine, who appear
ed in various operas i'm 1893.
The first striking clock was i'm
ported into Europe by the Persians
about the year 500. 1t was brought
as n present to Charlemagne from
Abdella, King of Persia, by two
monks of Jerusalem.
The first English newspaper was
the English Mercury, issued in the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was
i'm the shape of pamphlet. The
Gazette of Venice was the original
model of the modern newspaper.
The first bread was made by the
Greeks, and the first wind mills by
the Saracens.
Turnpikes were originated in
1867, the sum of one penny having
to be paid for each wagon passing
through a certain manor.
The first toll for the repair of
English highways was imposed in
the reign of Edward III, and was
for repairing the road between ST.
Giles and Temple Bar.
The first Lord Mayors show was
i'm 1853, and Sir John Shaw was the
first that held feast i'm the Guild
hall, 1901.
The first record we have Of coal
is about 800 years before the Chris
tian era. Coal was used as fuel in
England as early as $50, and in
1894 the first charter to dig for il
was granted by Henry III, to the
inhabitants of Newcastle-on-Tync
The first English almanac was
brought out at Trinity College
Cambridge, in 1917, and the first
printed almanac appeared in Lon
don about a hundred years later.
The first balloon was made by Il
Jesuit about 1920. The idea was
revived i'm France by NJ. MontgOl-
ier in 1888, and introduced into
England the following year.
Books in their present form were
first made by Attalus, King of Ber-
gamus, in S37.
Carriages were first introduced
into England in 1880, and were for
long time used only for the CON
veyance Of the sick and of ladies.
The London Exchange tells its
readers of the origin of several
things:
The first coinage Of money is at
tributed to Pheldon, King of Argos,
S95 b. c. Coined money was first
used i'm this country twenty-five
years before the Christian era, but
gold was not coined here until the
Eleventh century, and money was
not given the round form to which
we are accustomed until the lapse
of another hundred years or SO.
The first geographical map of
England was made in the year 1920.
Handkerchiefs were first manu-
factured at Paisley in l743.
Postoiiices were first known In
England as early as 1881, and ex-
actly 100 years later a penny post
was introduced for London and its
suberbs by an upholsterer named
Murray.
Pens were first used in the Sew
enth century. They were, of course
uuills. and steel pens did not come
into use until 1920, when the first
gross of them was sold wholesale
for 81 As. The quality of these
pens was greatly inferior to that OF
those for which we now pay I'd per
gross.
The first navigable canalin Eng
land was made i'm 1874 when Henry
| Joined the Trent to the Witham.
Woolen cloth was first made In
England in 1921, though its max
ing is one of the most ancient arts
It was not dyed or dressed by Eng
lishmen antil 1867.
Cricket was first played about
the year 1900. 1t was then and for
IA long time afterward known. as
"club ball"
The first dictionary was compiled
by Paout-She, a Chinaman, who
lived about 100 B. G.
The first voyage around the world